@DJ:

Theoretically, i could increase the smoothness by increasing the depth scalar again (it is currently 9x the original lol) I don't know about blurryness. i'll check it out.

new update

depth scalar has been tripled again.
max depth has been raised from 10 to 15
there are now 3 blocks per row instead of 1

One screenie is the current dev version
The other is showing the beta release game that has been slowed down to make it playable. (8xp is CR01)

major update:
-the depth field has tripled, making animation smoother and the 'cubes' more spread out.
-movement engine has been fixed.
-collision detection yay
-scoring
-i'm working on the non-randomly generated parts right now (like at the beginning and after you pass a "level")
the calc keeps crashing so hopefully I will get that ironed out.
-the game still needs a pause 100 to keep it remotely playable

No screenie right now because I'm just sitting here typing this update because I'm bored and waiting for 30 rock to start in about 2 minutes. maybe sometime tomorrow in the afternoon.

wow....random....

and lol i hope it goes well!

standardized tests are awesome stuff

ugh. well, you can try restarting comp/reattaching calc, or reinstalling ticonnect, or tilp.

personally ticonnect usually works for me, so as not to the point where i have needed to start using tilp.

but yeah, tilp is said to be 9000 times better

okay nevermind then.

if it's easy for you to reinstall ticonnect, i would try that.

or also, if that's easy, you might want to try installing TiLP if you can (it is an alternate linking program)
http://lpg.ticalc.org/prj_tilp/win32.html

Yes, it is currently much faster than the real version. This is because currently I'm only drawing the front of the cubes (with line( ) and also there is zero collision detection. Also there is only one cube per depth measurement, which will change later.

If you look carefully, the movement engine is a little messed up. What is happening is that I am rotating the camera to match the position of the ship's view. Meaning that you actually aren't moving at all. So I have to rework that part a bit.

Today I started experimenting with scaled sprites over legitimate 3d math. It runs a whole lot faster (like...a LOT) and even looks more 3d than before. The only problem would be that when I decide to draw the cubes' sides and tops it would be kind of weird (although I think i know how I could firgure that out...maybe.)